CoW 1.4.4 - Easy and painfree Installation

[Gigantus]

Let me have your log, maybe something will give a clue.

[♔DARTH LEGO♔]

aye aye cap'n

[Gigantus]

Nada. Nichts.

Only that your battle took 4 minutes and 33 seconds:

12:51:34.716 [system.io] [info] open: found mods/Call_of_Warhammer/data/ui/units/venice/#Knights_Innercircle.tga (from: C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War)
12:56:07.011 [system.rpt] [error] Unspecified error. The game will now exit.

If you were an attacker in a siege battle and won and then something went wrong due the new settlement (or a now dead faction leader) then at least two lines of that would be in the log. My choicest case: a unique building in the settlement had an info pic saved in the wrong format (grey, indexed) before saved as TGA. Rather abrupt end of the game. Took two days to find the culprit.
If a script is supposed to fire after the battle, then at least that line would show. My bet is still on some hard ware issue.
Try the battle again to see if the error persists. Then auto resolve and see if it crashes again. If auto does the same without any lines in the log then I really don't know what the problem would be.

Edit: it was a siegebattle with the character Leitdorf, wasn't it? Did he die?

[♔DARTH LEGO♔]

no my character lived; i'll run it on auto and seee what happens

edit: ok autoran and it didnt crash

will update after the next few battles

[Gigantus]

Maybe an Ihgtfi error?

[♔DARTH LEGO♔]

Maybe an Ihgtfi error?

HA..ha....HA

.....although here we call them i D10 t errors

that's all you getting

But no everything seems to be working A-ok, got to about 30 turns and not one CTD, although i must point out not too much has happened in the way of scripted stuff ie battles etc

so rosy for now.

[Gigantus]

I have played about 120 rounds with Kislev and haven't come across a single scripted battle. Guess I have to start with another faction now - I am just wiping the floor with all opponents, overkill is the norm (the undivided chaos guys were fun - now that's when a whooping isn't a shame)

But I haven't worked on the script at all - it's still the one that came with the original downloads. Can you give me any pointers what is supposed to happen?

[Kurgis]

Thought i'd better make a post. As I was looking to play this again - after trying the Russian downloads and getting CTD's ahoy - I tried this. I've got two games upto 75 turns+ now.

I had one lot of crashes during City sieges (not Dwarf city sieges strangely) - which I solved by lowering my graphics options a little (AA and AntiIsotrope - no shadows). since then i've had 2 - just 2 "random crashes" which I solved by either reloading or butchering the odd rebel force - neither has stopped my main two games of Dwarves and Nordland so far.

I recommend this work by Gigantus 100% if you want to play CoW! Now I might just start to update some of my guides a little - no doubt with my luck with patch 1.5 about to deploy!

Again, great work Gigantus and anyone who has helped him.

[Gigantus]

The dwarf building textures are custom and I have reduced their size - see 'work done'.

If you had problems with graphics settings during other siege battles you might wish to install this into your main games directory: Creating a World - Reduced City Textures. Don't install into CoW as it will overwrite custom textures there. The aim of it is to replace vanilla textures only.

Thanks for your vote of confidence.

[Gigantus]

Started a recommendations section in the first post.

[♔DARTH LEGO♔]

Well im playing as averland, and in fact most empire factions start with the same goals:

- first you have to beat back orc invaders.
- alot of merc appearances seem to be scripted in.
- then pending on campaign; your first crusade is normally against the vamps with the goal to capture drakenhof.
- then again pending on your expansion you either trigger a crusade against the orcs in the badlands, or normally for me on VH Choas unites early then the game becomes a veritable storm...
- Northern barons normally have to deal with dark elf incursions as well.

but so far thats it im on 58 now with crashes and ctd's only happening between scripted characters, battles ie like the orc crusade had some massive battles and sieges and not even a murmur. As soon as i took on the main warcamp instant CTD.

[Gigantus]

That stuff I had too, I was actually thinking along the line where a battle is scripted\started when you get to a certain point on the map. they had th e'battle of sterling' scripted like that in 'Kingdom of the Scots' - but good to know that I didn't miss out on anything.
Just a curious observation as the 'Russian' faction: the undivided chaos event spawns roughly 20 stacks of ueber units, but they all eventually make a move down south. I had two stacks hanging around the capital, not doing anything and being severely hamstrung wiht movement points. I could gather my armies from 10turns away and they still hadn't moved more then a fart. Is that normal?

[♔DARTH LEGO♔]

. I could gather my armies from 10turns away and they still hadn't moved more then a fart. Is that normal?

-i have noticed the scripted armies do have that 'warping ability' to jump around the map, so it makes it very difficult to trap their forces.
- i also think (needs checking) that some of the attribute entries for generals are the same as Thera (or vice versa) in that generals get movement points etc with experience.
- what i do know for sure that without a general, stacks move very slowly.
- also i suspect there is some of the map penalties ala third age SS etc...this could be placebo on my side but im sure of it....



edit also rereading your post do you mena the chaos armies just hang around? then yes in some case they do randomly, i have always thought it was the Ai waiting for you to come to it to activate the script, but they eventually mobilize if you provoke em

[Tomsie]

I've spent the last 2 evenings faffing about trying to get past turn 4 as DE, I'd lost count of how many times id re-installed. Installed using this, and I've finally hit turn 5! I'll post again later on down the line to let you know if I encounter any problems. I'll try a HE campaign also, as I'd managed to get 30 odd turns in with them, albeit with several random CTD's. Let you know if it's smoother going with this. I'm guessing it will be. Really appreciate you doing this, I can't imagine sorting through all those files was much fun. Hopefully the team will use this for future versions, as it appears to save so much grief.

[Vice]

Ugh I am just about at my wits end with this mod...I read your directions and installed everything to the folders where they need to be yet...whenever I click on the mod...it simply opens up another kingdoms launcher! Any way to fix this?

Am I suppose to have this mod installed all ready and then install your version? Or just install all of your files from this starting from scratch? (Which is what I did)

Also am I suppose to delete any more stuff with this edition or not?

I am on Steam using the kingdoms launcher app and making sure its kingdoms.exe (windows vista 64 bit as well)

[Gigantus]

Are you referring to the regular game launcher (simply another launcher)?
Does this launcher include "Call of Warhammer" after you used the launcher app?

I have updated my tut for Squid's app recently, please have a look if the steps you have taken agree with my instructions. I have actually taken this mod as an example.

Creating a World - Mod Install for Steam

[Vice]

EDIT: Never mind...somehow the game works now after simply exiting steam and starting it up again...well at least so far its great! Played a battle or two and a few turns and looking good!

EDIT2: Been playing the last few hours and not ONE CTD or any hint of choppy graphics weird symbols or anything...its perfect! You are a god among men Gigantus!

[Gigantus]

Can you please delete the setting for CoW in the launcher by going into Squid's app.
Then go through all steps again and make a screenshot at step 4. It appears that somehow the launcher points at launcher.exe instead of kingdoms.exe

Please also open the BAT file of CoW by right clicking it and choosing 'edit' - copy the content of the file here.
As a cross check please try to start any of the other mods listed in the regular launcher

[kar_soban]

Um hi, redownloading the Call of Warhammer mod when i stumbled upon this one and im giving it a try since original was CTD every other turn it seemed.

Quick problem though, is there any way to get the patches from something other than rapid share? The link says that the file is expired and while I get the yellow bar along the top of the screen asking to download I click allow and nothing happens it just takes me to the homepage of rapidshare.

Some help please?

[Gigantus]

It shouldn't have expired, I only uploaded them about 10 days ago.
Right next to the links of the RapidShare links are links for MegaUpload. Please be sure to read the note at the bottom of the first post regarding different file names in case you are doing a mix&match of files.

Edit: it appears RapidShare did a fast one on me. I never had a RapidsharePRO account and now they claim it is expired. I have written an e-mail to them, in the meantime please use the MegaUpload links.

Messed up

17th August 2011 - URGENT

RapidShare is jerking me around, apparently my RapidSharePRO account is expired - never paid for anything at RapidShare to become PRO to start with. For the time being please use only the MegaUpload links.